In Search of Balance Page #2
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- 2016
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school gardens, community
organization, spiritual centers,
farmers,
and natural trades.
Thank you.
We are hitting a wall,
and we know that pills
and surgeries are not making
cadent in the rates of diabetes
and heart disease
that we are seeing.
The most important thing
to understand is that
there is no one answer.
Health is something that needs
to be engaged with everyday
throughout the day in dozens
of little choices that we make.
The bad news is that
it's complicated.
On my 48th birthday
I had a really bad headache.
Ultimately
it was determined
that I had a disorder
called Neurosarcoidosis.
with prednisone, with steroids.
TV was too slow,
my laptop and that was the only
thing that was, you know,
because these drugs
just had my brain go --
A 106,000 Americans
from side-effects
of prescription drugs.
This is not drug errors,
this is not illicit drugs,
and this is actually
just compliant to drugs
given in hospitals.
And the steroids were great
and that the symptoms
that I was having went away and
within maybe two weeks of going
on these massive
dosage of steroids,
my appetite was back
and I gained somewhere
in the neighborhood 30
or 40 pounds in two weeks,
because I was eating
like a teenage boy.
What I didn't know at that
time was that prednisone
can lead to diabetes.
medication for diabetes.
We tend to medicalize health,
within the purview of what we
can do that's either a drug
or a surgery or some kind
of chemical intervention
to make us feel better,
and in fact we know
that there is many, many
other things out there
that have everything to do
with creating this balance.
I mean,
I am really thankful
that Western medicine
saved his life
because, you know, definitely
But at the same
time, you know,
prednisone caused terrible
side-effects that is --
it's just one of
those things that --
It was like those
old '40s and '50s movies
life and now they own you.
This is where I pay you off.
The hubris of thinking
that we could simplify
this complex system,
put it on a pill, we should be
surprised if that ever worked,
if a drug company
came up with a pill
that had the
benefits of broccoli,
I mean, they would be
making billions of dollars
because it's
just so clear-cut.
So, our reductionist
approach is doing very little
in the phase of this epidemic
of chronic disease.
Reductionism means
taking a system
and reducing it into
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